Collocations with virtue

These are words often used in combination with virtue.

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cardinal virtue
He did, however, start off with the right credentials to become a major playwright: he considered disrespect for authority a cardinal virtue.
chief virtue
This, indeed, is the chief virtue of the book under review.
civic virtue
In the process, interesting ideas on accountability, transparency and civic virtue are getting under the wire.
greatest virtue
His greatest virtue is that when he lectures he shows you how he does research.
intellectual virtue
Is an intellectual virtue that always yields true beliefs equivalent to a knowledge engine?
moral virtue
Natural philosophy was supposed to lead to moral virtue, to modesty and religious reverence.
paragon of virtue
He claimed that every man who works for a direct labour organisation is a paragon of virtue.
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Hansard archive

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theological virtue
We can strengthen this last claim in particular by showing how faith, qua theological virtue, is related to the two other theological virtues, hope and love.
virtue ethics
This is not to say that virtue ethics faces any peculiar problem of demandingness.
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